Diane Powell is an adjunct faculty member for grades PreK-2 at the Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative in the School of Education. As a former elementary educator and Reading Recovery Teacher Leader, Diane has spent her career working on behalf of elementary children and their successful school experiences. Her work has taken her from classrooms in Columbus, Ohio, to the Department of Defense Dependent Schools in Germany. Her thinking has been greatly influenced by the work of Dr. Marie Clay, Dr. Irene Fountas, and Dr.Gay Su Pinnell, and she continues to deepen her own understandings of how children develop effective and efficient reading and writing processing systems so she can better serve the professionals that are part of the Center's network.